Postal is an open source mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email, with SMTP support, web-based management, and tools for running your own SendGrid-style service.

16.7k stars1.3k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Cloud transactional email delivery service providing API and SMTP relay for sending transactional emails, hosted templates, inbound routing and webhooks, deliverability tools (DKIM/SPF, suppression), analytics and monitoring for developers and product teams.
Postal is an open source mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email, with SMTP support, web-based management, and tools for running your own SendGrid-style service.

16.7k stars1.3k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
Haraka is a fast, event-driven SMTP server for receiving, filtering, and relaying email, featuring a modular plugin architecture for customization at scale.

5.6k stars706 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
AGPL-3.0 open-source email API for developers that can be self-hosted; supports SMTP sending, webhooks, DNS automation, observability, multi-tenancy, and project isolation.

708 stars37 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
A small, C-based Mail Transfer Agent for local submission and outbound relay with TLS/SMTP authentication, aimed at home and small office use.
262 stars59 forkslast commit Likely dormant
Exim is an open source SMTP message transfer agent (MTA) for Unix-like systems, offering flexible mail routing and extensive controls for handling inbound email.

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Postfix is a fast, secure, and easy-to-administer SMTP server for sending and routing email on Unix-like systems, commonly used as an MTA or mail relay.

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Lightweight SMTP server written in Go that receives and sends email via a single JSON config and executable hooks; supports per-user DKIM and TLS.

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OpenSMTPD is an open-source, minimal SMTP daemon from the OpenBSD project providing an RFC-compliant MTA with privilege separation, table backends, filters and TLS support.

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Open Source Sendmail provides a subset of Proofpoint's Sendmail Sentrion MTA for large-scale mail deployments; current release is 8.16.1 with a PGP-signed tarball and OpenDKIM integration.

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chasquid is a minimalist SMTP server (MTA) for individuals and small groups, focused on secure defaults, easy configuration, and straightforward operation.

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Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 10 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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